Lunar Autonomy Challenge: Selected Teams
Congratulations to the selected teams and their schools who will participate in the Lunar Autonomy Challenge! 31 teams were selected for the qualifying round, engaging 229 students from colleges and universities in 15 states. Teams will now move on to a Qualifying Round where they will virtually explore and map the lunar surface using a digital twin of NASA’s lunar mobility robot, the ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx). Teams will develop software that can perform set actions without human intervention, navigating the digital IPEx in the harsh, low-light conditions of the Moon. The Qualifying Round will extend to February 28, when the top-scoring teams will proceed to the Final Round, with the winners announced in May 2025.
The Lunar Autonomy Challenge is a collaboration between NASA, The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Caterpillar Inc., and Embodied AI.
Learn more: https://lunar-autonomy-challenge.jhuapl.edu/
School
City
State
American Public University System
Charles Town
West Virginia
Arizona State University
Tempe
Arizona
California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (1)
Pomona
California
California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona (2)
Pomona
California
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Daytona Beach
Florida
Essex County College
Newark
New Jersey
Georgia Institute of Technology & Arizona State University
Atlanta & Tempe
Georgia & Arizona
Harvard University
Allston
Massachusetts
Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering
Baltimore
Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Massachusetts
New York University Tandon School of Engineering
Brooklyn
New York
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
North Carolina
Penn State (1)
University Park
Pennsylvania
Penn State (2)
University Park
Pennsylvania
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Indiana
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester
New York
Rose Hulman Institue of Technology
Terre Haute
Indiana
Stanford University
Stanford
California
Texas A&M University
College Station
Texas
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
University of Buffalo, State University of New York
Buffalo
New York
University of California, Stanislaus
Turlock
California
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (1)
Urbana
Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (2)
Urbana
Illinois
University of Maryland
College Park
Maryland
University of Pennsylvania (1)
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania (2)
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
University of Southern California & Stanford University
Los Angeles & Stanford
California
West Virginia University
Morgantown
West Virginia
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Worcester
Massachusetts
